Irish History The great convulsion in context
IRISH HISTORY: The Irish War of Independence.By Michael Hopkinson.Gill &Macmillan, 274pp. €29
Dublin divided
HISTORY: DERMOT BOLGER reviews A City in Wartime: Dublin 1914-18 Pádraig Yeates Gill & Macmillan, 304pp. €24.99
September 13th, 1915
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A year after the start of the first World War there were daily British army recruiting meetings around the…
August 17th, 1914
FROM THE ARCHIVES: John Redmond, the leader of the Irish Party, addressed a 2,000 strong assembly of Irish Volunteers, some …
August 15th, 1914
The start of what turned out to be the first World War in August 1914 led to some panic buying of food in Dublin and accusations…
April 11th, 1918
FROM THE ARCHIVES: The initial success of the German offensive in spring 1918 panicked the British government into announcing…
March 25th, 1916
FROM THE ARCHIVES: In March 1916 – coincidentally, a month before the Easter Rising – The Irish Times published “a flight of…
JUNE 15th, 1918: Anti-conscription pledge is enforced by use of boycott
FROM THE ARCHIVES: In 1918, the last year of the first World War and the year before the War of Independence began, conscription…
Anzac Day commemorated in Dublin
A CEREMONY held just after dawn in Dublin yesterday marked the 97th anniversary of Anzac Day, when Australian and New Zealand…
A toast to Fermanagh's ghost of the 'Titanic'
MURIEL MARTIN and her daughter Lorna are on holidays from Australia retracing the route of the Titanic from Belfast to Southampton…
Redmond was a realist - some successors were not
OPINION: ON APRIL 11th, 1912 – 100 years ago – the Third Home Rule Bill was presented, for the first time, to the House of Commons…
Sacrifice of Irish men who fought in first World War recalled
THE FIRST World War represents the worst Irish death toll from a single event since the Famine, making it imperative that its…
Remembrance in NI need not be divisive for communities
COMMEMORATIONS can help shape our collective political, social and cultural conscience and may be a source of healing and learning…
An Irishman's Diary
ON the first day of Queen Elizabeth’s Irish visit, with synchronicity a group assembled at the grave of Willie Redmond in Flanders…
December 7th 1914
FROM THE ARCHIVES: At the beginning of December 1914, the British authorities in Ireland banned a number of publications including…
October 11th, 1918
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A month before the end of the first World War, the mid-morning mail boat from Dún Laoghaire to Holyhead, …
September 20th, 1915
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A year after the start of the first World War there was a continuous recruiting drive to entice volunteers…
September 1st, 1916: From The Archives:
The success of nationalist politicians, especially the East Mayo MP John Dillon, in preventing the British government from introducing…
January 6th, 1915: Enemies unite to bury dead during peaceful interlude
FROM THE ARCHIVES: The first Christmas of the first World War is remembered mainly for the outbreak of peace and a football …
November 9th, 1918: Relief as deaths from 1918 Spanish flu epidemic began to decline
BACK PAGES: The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, estimated to have killed more than 50 million worldwide, affected Ireland as everywhere…
Volunteers divided over response to war
September 1st 1914. THE START of the first World War in August 1914 exposed deep divisions among nationalists, not least among…
APRIL 24th, 1916: 'Our foolish young men play at soldiers'
READERS OF The Irish Times on Easter Monday in 1916, April 24th that year, would have had no inkling of the historical change…
The gross incompetence behind Gallipoli
HISTORY: Gallipoli: The End of the Myth By Robin Prior Yale University Press, 304pp. £25
The need to memorialise
POETRY: Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-1945 Edited by Gerald Dawe Blackstaff, 412pp, £16
Shock, awe and solace
Poetry: In his fictionalised autobiography, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, Siegfried Sassoon recounts the following…
The view from the inside Irish History
IRISH HISTORY: British intelligence was understandably disparaging in 1922
The seeds of Europe's catastrophe
There are few enough times indeed when a reviewer's heart lifts with unmitigated joy at a work, not merely because of the scholarship…
Masterly portrait of conflict
For all the studies which have poured from scholars over the decades, one historian of the Great War stood quite massively alone…
War and remembrance
The opening of the Island of Ireland Peace Tower at Messines in Belgium in 1998 marked a turning point in Irish remembrance of…
An Irishman's Diary
Had you taken a sleeping draught a mere 10 years ago, and finally woken up this month, you would not know the Ireland before …
The Imperial War Museum Book of 1918, Year of Victory by Malcolm Brown (Pan, £10 in UK)
The early months of 1918 did not promise well for the Western Allies; with Russia knocked out of the war, Ludendorff transferred…
Gallipoli by Robert Rhodes James (Pimlico, £12.50 in UK)
The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 probably has been fought over as often as the Somme or Passchendaele, yet this new account …
War made a poet of `Mad Jack'
Siegfried Sassoon. By John Stuart Roberts. Richard Cohen Books. 354pp. £20 in UK.
The Eastern Front 1914-1917, by Norman Stone (Penguin, £8.99 in UK)
Stone's book has become a virtual classic since it first appeared in 1975
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